Happy 4th of July ( Read more... )

Things I did today ( Read more... )

My fingernails hadn't seen any polish for a year and a half. Then I saw a hand with blue nail polish on Instagram, holding a smoothie or something. I took a screenshot and went to the drugstore to find a similar color, but nothing came close. It had some quality I couldn't pinpoint, and that clearly couldn't be found in a drugstore. So I tried ( Read more... )

Last week we were watching Jeopardy and there was a clue about The Wife of Bath. "Hey, that's me!" I thought. I'm a wife, I live in Bath. (Sort of ( Read more... )

This is the ten year anniversary of my first livejournal entry. Granted I haven't kept it up as much as I did in the beginning, but I never went more than a few months without an entry. And I've got loads of private entries ( Read more... )

I should be trying to sleep. I don't want to write that. I read it at the beginning of so many journal entires and always wish I could edit it out. It never has anything to do with the rest of the entry, it doesn't belong, it ruins it. And yet I still feel compelled to write it ( Read more... )

Just watching Momus's dance to celebrate a new kettle. Reminds me of my dad's quest for the perfect kettle. Alas, he never found one and now boils all his water in the microwave ( Read more... )

1. I have to tell a story in front of an audience on Sunday and I am not prepared, and I probably will not be. My friend Alessandra has been having her own story telling show, I went once, some people sucked, some were really good, and almost everyone is a professional entertainer in some capacity. Whereas I have never spoken to an audience on my ( Read more... )

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I used to think my parents taught me nothing. If someone were to say "What did your mom teach you? Name the first thing that comes into your head?" nothing would come.

Not that they didn't teach me things, but they didn't really stress anything, or drill anything.

This past month or so in doing my research/soul searching about whether or not I ( Read more... )